Events on Friday, February 20
Friday 2/20 @ UCLA Live at Royce Hall
Werner Herzog's narratives and documentaries (and documentaries about the narratives) straddle a fine line between the painfully mundane and the hyper-real,...
Friday 2/20 @ Avalon Hollywood
Backlash is a bitch, and Fischerspooner — the colorful performance troupe that became the poster children for electroclash — have certainly...
Friday 2/20 @ Air Conditioned Supper Club, Venice
Deep-house maven DJ Chris Caparro welcomes some very special guests to the stage as part of tonight's installment of the 16Bit...
Friday 2/20 @ The Smell
A name like Thurston Moore immediately demands respect. The post-punk godfather has been rocking out with Sonic Youth for nearly 30...
Ongoing Events
Friday 2/20 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
The 2008 installment of the California Biennial should come with an anxiety-attack warning label. In a way, it does, with Patrick...
Friday 2/20 @ Steve Turner Contemporary
Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and (most recently) video artist Mark Bradford has exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious...
Friday 2/20 @ Robert Berman Gallery
Forty years after Easy Rider hit the silver screen, Harley-Davidson's out to prove the rebel is alive and well. Commissioning 11...
Friday 2/20 @ Art/Works Theatre
For the first half of the 20th century, Le Theatre du Grand Guignol in Paris reigned as the predominant purveyor of...
Friday 2/20 @ SCI-Arc
Austrian architect and SCI-Arc alum Susanne Zottl seeks out man-made environments and historic structures, fusing the world's existing space with her...
Friday 2/20 @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
Baltimore-born artist Chris Stain makes his West Coast solo-show debut with this exhibition — but he's starting at the top. Including...
Friday 2/20 @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
Ruth Weisberg is hailed in some quarters as a living legend of contemporary figurative painting. Her delicate, yet dense depictions of...
Friday 2/20 @ Sherry Frumkin Gallery
With her new book, RIGHT: Portraits from the Evangelical Ivy League, photographer Jona Frank flips the script on the face of...
Friday 2/20 @ Pepperdine University, Weisman Museum of Art
The Weisman Museum at Pepperdine's Malibu campus launches one of its most important exhibitions to date with this long-overdue survey of...
Friday 2/20 @ Steve Turner Contemporary
Mark Dutcher's first show with Steve Turner Contemporary deftly traverses the space between sculpture and painting, thrusting the artist's traditional oeuvre...
Friday 2/20 @ The Ford Theater
Chronicling the misadventures of feisty, forward-thinking Martha, Battle Hymn is a touching, comedic, and thoughtful survey of American history, as seen...
Wallace Berman and Richard Prince
Friday 2/20 @ Michael Kohn Gallery
Aside from the landscape, womankind has been art's favorite subject — and few portray femininity quite as impressively or distinctly as...
Friday 2/20 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
World-renowned Mexican silversmith Antonio Pineda brings more than 200 of his masterpieces up the coast to UCLA's Fowler Museum, to show...
Friday 2/20 @ Ghettogloss Presents: An art conglomerate on the move
Sharing its title with a children's book, an '84 Wynton Marsalis album, and an early '90s band, Hothouse Flowers beautifies advertisements...
Friday 2/20 @ Norton Simon Museum
The French Fauvist painter Henri Matisse began a simple, 30-lithograph portfolio in 1941, and seven years later transformed it into a...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Friday 2/20 @ GRAMMY Museum at LA Live
The recently opened GRAMMY Museum at Downtown's mammoth entertainment complex LA Live offers visitors a rare, intimate glimpse into the life...
Shangri-La: Architecture as a State of Flux
Friday 2/20 @ 18th Street Arts Center
English author James Hilton first coined the term "Shangri-La" in his 1933 novel Lost Horizon; since then, the name has morphed...
Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde
Friday 2/20 @ The Getty Center
In Tango with Cows, the Getty Research Institute presents a concentrated display of unabridged books published in Russia between 1910 and...
Friday 2/20 @ Vinum Populi
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie...
Friday 2/20 @ Wignall Museum/Gallery at Chaffey College
From psychedelic ceramics to custom-knitted army-tank cozies, the Arts and Crafts movement is thriving at Chaffey College's Wignall Museum in Rancho...
Self-Portraits in the Age of MyFaceSpaceBook
Friday 2/20 @ I-5 Gallery
Self-Portraits in the Age of MyFaceSpaceBook is a big, fat group show that delivers just what its title promises: an unwieldy...
Friday 2/20 @ Materials & Applications
First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &...
Friday 2/20 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
Where London has the Victoria and Albert, LA has the Craft and Folk Art Museum; yet, too often, the little institution...
Friday 2/20 @ Art Dimensions
Freyda Miller's body of work dates as far back as 1978, developing from her early conceptual photography to the Fertile Dreams...
Friday 2/20 @ Theatre West
Hollywood's Theatre West has been providing challenging workshops, staging world-class performances, and giving back to the community for 47 years. LA's...
Friday 2/20 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery
Moira Hahn is known for conceptually complex, masterfully rendered mash-up paintings in which wild and domestic animals play the roles of...
Friday 2/20 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Jerry Robinson, cartoonist and creator of Batman's iconic villain, the Joker, guest curated ZAP! POW! BAM! The Golden Age of Comic...
Friday 2/20 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Friday 2/20 @ Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens
In honor of Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday, the newly renovated Huntington Library digs into its massive reservoir of Lincolniana. The letters,...
Friday 2/20 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
BMWs get rock-star parking at LACMA this month — that is, those BMWs fortunate enough to have played canvas to some...
Marianne Mueller and Penelope Gottlieb
Friday 2/20 @ Lightbox Gallery
Photographer Marianne Mueller and painter Penelope Gottlieb unite their disparate styles in this visual double bill at the Kim Light/Lightbox Gallery....
Friday 2/20 @ Santa Monica Museum of Art
East meets West on many levels as the Santa Monica Museum of Art welcomes octogenarian lion of painting Arnold Mesches to...
Friday 2/20 @ Fahey/Klein Gallery
Like many photographers, Jeremy Kidd is drawn to sweeping vistas, from the high desert to the ocean floor, and from suburbia...
Friday 2/20 @ Armory Center for the Arts
With At the Brewery Project: 1993-2007: the Finale, the Armory pays its respects to an LA art mainstay. For the past...
Friday 2/20 @ Royal/T
Director of New York's Greene Naftali Gallery, Jay Sanders steps into cafe/shop/gallery Royal/T to curate this group show of works from...
